Irettesætte Tyrkiets regering offentligt og stå sammen med HDP og kurderne.

Irettesætte Tyrkiets regering offentligt og stå sammen med HDP og kurderne.

Kære Statsminister Lars Løkke Rasmussen.

Kære Folketingsmedlemmer, Udenrigsminister Kristian Jensen, udenrigsordførere og medlemmer af Det Udenrigspolitiske nævn:

Mette Gjerskov, Yildiz Akdogan, Jakob Elleman-Jensen, Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen,

Zenia Stampe, Ellen Trane Nørbye, Pia Adelsteen, Søren Espersen, Orla Hav, Søren Pind, Morten Bødskov, Holger K Nielsen, Nikolaj Villumsen, Karsten Lauritzen, Naser Khader, Martin Lidegaard, Michael Aastrup Jensen og Mette Bock.

Tak for en god valgkamp og Deres vedholdende og hårde arbejde i landets tjeneste.

Tidligere i år stod jeg ved en tavle og underviste en gruppe 10. klasses elever i matematik. En af eleverne hed Dilan, Dilan var kurder, fandt jeg ud af lidt henne i forløbet. Dilan var livfuld, energisk og ofte glad, dog kneb det lidt med at kanalisere energien ind i et koncentreret matematisk fokus.

For to dage siden blev Dilan skudt og dræbt i Istanbul af Tyrkisk politi. 

Dilan Kortak

”During police raid in Sancaktepe of İstanbul a 20-year-old woman named Dilan Kortak was killed. Despite claims of noises of an armed fight, inhabitants affirm they have not heard gun fire.” http://m.bianet.org/english/human-rights/169876-woman-killed-by-police-raid-in-sancaktepe

”Dilan Kortak(20) was executed last night by police in Sancaktepe/Istanbul. Although there is no conflict trail, it was editorialized as 'clash in the cell house' in the press. But the revealed witnesses are shown that there was not a clash and she was executed by police. 4 women, 3 in Istanbul, have been executed with the same methods in last four months. ” ⁱ

Ovenstående skal præciseres: Dilan, som jeg lærte at kende i min klasse, deler fornavn med Dilan Kortak, men det er ikke samme person.

Omkring 20 minutters cykling fra min bopæl ligger den tyrkiske ambassade. Jeg overvejer at køre forbi en af de næste dage og lægge en blomst.

Hvornår rejser en eller flere vestlige topledere sig mon og irettesætter den tyrkiske regering tydeligt og offentligt for de modbydelige forbrydelser, som tyrkisk militær og politi begår mod det kurdiske mindretal i Tyrkiet? (Disse forbrydelser kan bestemt ikke undskyldes med eller bortforklares som en krig mod terror, dertil er der alt alt for mange vidneudsagn, som peger i en helt anden retning. Læs eksempelvis uddraget af en observationsrapport fra Cizre i sektionen med Appendix – nederst.) Hvornår rejser en eller flere vestlige topledere sig mon og irettesætter den tyrkiske regering tydeligt og offentligt for den indirekte krig mod Rojava-regionen og visse kurdisk-beskyttede områder i Aleppo, som Tyrkiet blandt andet har ført og fører igennem deres ”proxy” Al-Nusra? For ikke at nævne den transit-zone, som IS har haft i Tyrkiet....

Tavsheden er skuffende og besynderlig, den efterlader efterhånden millioner af mennesker i Europa og Mellemøsten med det indtryk at vestlige ledere er så svage at de ikke tør røre ”Det kurdiske spørgsmål”.

Man bøjer sig ydmygt i tavshed foran Sultanen og har kun øje for kortsigtede politiske løsninger på flygtningekrisen og kortsigtede økonomiske interesser. Det er kun et indtryk, men sådan er det. Ak.

EU gør det ikke bedre, tværtimod virker det som om EU-landene er bøjet mod hinanden eller viklet ind i hinanden på en måde, som hindrer en klar position i denne sag.

Der ligger et ikke-ubetydeligt mentalt pres på herboende danske kurdere, som på afstand kan se deres folk og deres venner og familier og bekendte leve – og dø – under disse farlige omstændigheder. Det er ikke svært at forstå, at nogen af dem vil ned og kæmpe i YPG/YPJs rækker. Eller med Peshmerga i Irak. Men endnu værre er det visse steder i Tyrkiet og Syrien.

Hør hvordan dette pres mod kurderne ifølge førnævnte rapport lader til at drive kurdiske børn hen imod det utænkelige. At blive selvmordsbombere:

I will explain about a kid who came 2 days ago. Kid was 6-7 years old. When he was brought

to the emergency room, he was screaming and trying to scratch his eye out. He was

constantly screaming around as “I will kill myself.”

This morning a kid came with his cousins around the same age. All were 10 years old. They

were also screaming like that. “We are gonna kill ourselves. We are gonna explode

ourselves!” It shows how the psychologies of these kids are affected. 7 years old, 10 years old

children screaming as “I will explode myself”… From now on there is nothing to do.”

HDPs leder Selahattin Demirtaş (med det sorte hår) i forbindelse med begravelsen af den myrdedeⁱⁱ advokat og menneskerettighedsforkæmper Tahir Elci for knap en uge siden:

#Demirtaş: They are not giving us the right to speak the truth in our own home. Reality is painful, but someone must voice it up. We did not want blood, we did not want death, we just wanted to live in freedom. #TahirElci

#Demirtaş: TahirElçi knew it, he knew he was not going to die in his bed. Isn’t it the same for all of us? ... In Ankara there is an authority & mentality that is indifferent to this pain. How can we say they are our state, our authority?

"We are trying to push both PKK and the Turkish state to end this armed conflict. It should be known that it is the AKP who is insisting on war politics and implementing anti- democratic practices all over the country.

In spite of these adverse developments, we call on all international communities, civil society organizations and the international media for solidarity and support to bring about an immediate cease-fire and the commencement of peace talks. Our call is also one for urgent action against increasing state violence, the violation of human rights and anti-democratic practices and measures ins Kurdish cities as well as the cities in the western regions of the country. We now need the support of the international public more than ever in order to achieve the realization of a lasting peace in the Middle East, Turkey and Kurdistan. In this context we invite all of our friends, political parties, associations, networks, civil society organizations and all peace-loving forces to act in solidarity with us. We call on all democratic international institutions and forces to take concrete steps against the Turkish state’s violent, anti-democratic actions against its own people and citizens.”

Foreign Affairs Commission of HDP
10 September 2015 https://hdpenglish.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/urgent-call-for-international-action/#more-790      

Den 23. december 1981 holdt Præsident Ronald Reagan en tale til det amerikanske folk fra det Ovale værelse i Det Hvide Hus. ⁱ

Solidaritetsbevægelsen i Polen var i disse dage hårdt presset af de kommunistiske håndlangere i Polen. Reagan sagde blandt andet:

”Mens jeg taler til jer i aften, så hænger skæbnen for en gammel og stolt nation i en tynd tråd. I tusind år har julen været fejret i Polen, et land med en dyb religiøs tro, men denne jul giver sparsom glæde til det modige polske folk. Det er blevet forrådt af sin egen regering.

De mænd, som hersker over dem, og deres totalitære allierede frygter selve den frihed, som det polske folk værdsætter. De har besvaret den spirende friheds-bevægelse med brutal magt, drab, massearrestationer og opbygning af koncentrationslejre. Lech Walesa og andre ledere af Solidaritet er fængslet, deres skæbne er uvis. Fabrikker, miner, universiteter og hjem er blevet angrebet...

Jeg anmoder indtrængende den polske regering og dens allierede om at betænke konsekvenserne af deres handlinger. Hvordan kan det være muligt for dem at retfærdiggøre at anvende nøgen magt til at knuse et folk, som ikke beder om andet end retten til at bestemme over deres eget liv i frihed og værdighed? Brutal magt kan intimidere, men den kan ikke danne grundlag for et varigt samfund.....

Reagan i det Ovale værelse

Polen har brug for samarbejde mellem sin regering og sit folk, ikke militær undertrykkelse. ..

Vores regering har sammen med vores allieredes regeringer givet udtryk for moralsk afsky overfor Polens undertrykkeres politistatsmetoder. Kirken har også taget offentligt til genmæle til trods for trusler og intimidering. Men vores reaktion kan ikke stoppe her. Jeg vil på det kraftigste understrege her i aften, at hvis uhyrlighederne i Polen ikke stopper, så kan vi ikke, og vil ikke føre ’’business as usual’’ med gerningsmændene og deres medskyldige. Tag ikke fejl, deres kriminalitet kommer til at koste dem dyrt i deres fremtidige omgang med Amerika og frie mennesker overalt i verden. Jeg kommer ikke med denne erklæring på overfladisk eller letsindig vis, ej heller uden seriøse refleksioner. Med henblik på at hjælpe det lidende polske folk under denne kritiske periode, vil vi fortsætte forsendelsen af mad igennem private humanitære kanaler, men kun så længe vi, ved at det polske folk selv modtager maden. Nabolandet Østrig har åbnet sine døre for flygtninge fra Polen. Jeg har derfor dikteret, at amerikansk assistance, heriblandt forsyninger af grundlæggende madvarer, skal tilbydes for at hjælpe østrigerne med at tage sig af disse flygtninge. Men for at understrege vores fundamentale modstand mod de underkuende handlinger, den polske regering har udført mod sit eget folk, har denne amerikanske regering suspenderet alle vores stats-sponsorede forsendelser af landbrugs-produkter – heriblandt mælkeprodukter – til den polske regering. Denne suspension vil stå ved magt, indtil der er modtaget absolut vished om, at distributionen af disse produkter bliver monitoreret og garanteret af uafhængige agenturer. Vi må være sikre på, at hver eneste lille smule fødevare leveret af Amerika går til det polske folk og ikke dets undertrykkere.”

Parallellen til Tyrkiet 2015 er klar:

”denne tid giver sparsom glæde til det modige kurdiske folk i Tyrkiet. Det er blevet forrådt af sin egen regering.

De mænd, som hersker over dem frygter selve den frihed, som det kurdiske folk værdsætter. De har besvaret den spirende friheds-bevægelse med brutal magt, drab, og massearrestationer. Mange ledere af HDP er fængslet, HDPs kontorer er blevet angrebet, politiske møder angrebet og endda bombet.

HDP med-leder Figen Yüksekdağ i BBC for nogle få dage siden.

Jeg anmoder indtrængende den tyrkiske regering om at betænke konsekvenserne af deres handlinger. Hvordan kan det være muligt for dem at retfærdiggøre at anvende nøgen magt til at knuse et folk, som ikke beder om andet end retten til at bestemme over deres eget liv i frihed og værdighed? Brutal magt kan intimidere, men den kan ikke danne grundlag for et varigt samfund.....Tyrkiet har brug for samarbejde mellem sin regering og sit folk, kurdere og alle andre, ikke militær undertrykkelse. ..

Vores regering har sammen med vores allieredes regeringer givet udtryk for moralsk afsky overfor de tyrkiske undertrykkeres politistatsmetoder. Kirken har også taget offentligt til genmæle til trods for trusler og intimidering. Men vores reaktion kan ikke stoppe her. Jeg vil på det kraftigste understrege her i aften, at hvis uhyrlighederne i Tyrkiet ikke stopper, så kan vi ikke, og vil ikke føre ’’Business as usual’’ med gerningsmændene og deres medskyldige. Tag ikke fejl, deres kriminalitet kommer til at koste dem dyrt i deres fremtidige omgang med Amerika og frie mennesker overalt i verden. Jeg kommer ikke med denne erklæring på overfladisk eller letsindig vis, ej heller uden seriøse refleksioner. Med henblik på at hjælpe det lidende kurdiske folk under denne kritiske periode, vil vi....”

Hvad Ronald Reagan ville sige hvis han i dag sad i Præsident Obamas stol i det Ovale Værelse kan ingen vide med sikkerhed. Men jeg opfordrer (endnu engang) Folketinget til – i vores fælles medmenneskeligheds navn og i linje med den ånd, som folk viste da de førte danske jøder i sikkerhed i Sverige under anden Verdenskrig – til to ting:

1: At gøre alle politisk mulige tiltag, der kan fremme fred, forsoning og frihed i Tyrkiet, særligt i de kurdiske områder.

2: Gør alle anstrengelser for at få en permanent kontakt etableret med myndighederne i Rojava, med henblik på assistance og partnerskab.

Her vil jeg endda driste mig til lige at tilføje et militært forslag: Jeg opfordrer til en hurtig udsendelse af danske jæger- og frømandssoldater til Rojava, hvor de skal samarbejde med de amerikanske specialstyrker, som allerede er til stede. Jeg ønsker særligt, at de skal bistå kurderne, men måske mere bredt hele SDF, Syrian Democratic Forces. Syrian Democratic Forces, som er den eneste virkeligt seriøse moderate gruppe – ikke sandt? SDF inkluderer både arabere, assyrere og kurdere. Denne sammensætning førte til det næsten surrealistiske billede, at man i oktober kunne se arabiske mænd side om side med kurdiske kvinder, parat til kampen mod IS.

Det er dog set før i Rojava, men ikke i denne nye alliance-kontekst. Jeg har i øvrigt det indtryk, at danske medier ikke har berettet særligt meget om denne udvikling, og ingen af dem har vist bragt dette billede.  

 

Styrker fra SDF: Kurdiske kvinder til venstre i billedet, arabiske mænd til højre (det røde flag). Kilde: ANHA og YPG Websider. ⁱ

SDF billede

Tak.

Venlig hilsen

Heine Strømdahl

Gentofte 05-12-15

P.S.

Dette er en åben henvendelse, så jeg deler den på min blog, Twitter og andre steder.

Appendix 1:ⁱⁱ

Selected portions from the Report:

*On September 4, 2015 Mehmet Emin Levent (29) lost his life by the fire from an armoured

vehicle in Nur quarter.

*On September 5, 2015 H.B. (15), Barış İşçen (16), Ümran Asrak (18) and Meryem İşçen

(40) were wounded by the opened fire.

*On September 5, 2015 Ziynet Dirican lost one eye due to hitting by an object while sitting

in her house.

*On September 5, 2015, Hacı Ata Borçin (75) and Gadban Bülbül (78) lost their lives due to

heart attack caused by the tension of clashes.

*On September 5, 2015 Sait Çağdavul (21) was shot to death when security forces opened

fire against Nur quarter from an armoured vehicle.

*On September 6, 2015 35 days old baby Muhammed Tahir Yaramış fell from his mother’s

arms and started having health problems. Later he lost his life on the grounds that the police

did not allow the ambulance to enter Nur quarter.

*On September 6, 2015 Osman Çağlı (18) was shot to death when security forces opened

fire against Cudi quarter from an armoured vehicle.

*On September 7, 2015 Cemile Çağırga (10) was shot to death when security forces opened

fire against Cudi quarter from an armoured vehicle.

*On September 7, 2015, Bahattin Sevinik (50) lost his life weather due to hitting by a missile

on his house or due to firearm in Nur quarter (witness statements are not clear).

*On September 7, 2015, Suphi Sarak (50) was shot to death when weather snipers or an

armoured vehicle opened fire in Nur quarter (witness statements are not clear).

*On September 7, 2015 Murat Babayiğit (9) and Baran İmrağ (12) were wounded caused by

the opened fire.

*On September 8, 2015 Nurullah Aslan and Ümit Aşkın were wounded by the opened fire

during clashes. In front of the hospital in Diyarbakır where they were taken under treatment,

there was citizens and undercover police officers waiting and visitors of the wounded people

were checked for their criminal records.

*On September 8, 2015 Mesut Demir was wounded in the shoulder by snipers while he was

going to visit his relatives to express his condolences about the death of one of his relatives.

*On September 8, 2015 Ömer Magi (14) was critically wounded due to a bullet in his right

abdominal cavity.

*On September 8, 2015 Abdullah Özcan (31), father of 6 children, was wounded in his foot

by the opened fire while he was performing salaat in one of the rooms of his house which is

closer to the street. Due to lack of security of life he could be taken to Şırnak State Hospital

after 12 hours and when he was sent to Diyarbakır his wounded foot had to be amputated.

*On September 8, 2015 the fire fighters who went to extinguish the fire in Nur quarter were

shot by the opened fire.

*On September 8, 2015 Meryem Süne (53), mother of 7 children, was shot from an

armoured vehicle Yasef quarter and died of blood loss.

*On September 8, 2015 Zeynep Taşkın (19) was shot to death in Cudi quarter by the snipers

on the rooftops while she was holding her baby. The baby Berxwedan was also critically

wounded in the foot and ear.

*On September 8, 2015 Maşallah Edin (35) was shot to death in Cudi quarter by the snipers

on the rooftops.

*On September 8, 2015 İbrahim Çiçek (79) lost his life on the grounds that he wasn’t able to

be taken to a hospital while he was already a patient confined to bed in Nur quarter.

*On September 9, 2015 Eşref Edin (56) was shot to death by the opened fire from armoured

vehicles on the top of the hills around Nur quarter while he was on his house’s rooftop.

*On September 9, 2015 Mehmet Sait Nayici (16) was shot to death by the opened fire in

Cudi quarter.

*On September 9, 2015 Özgür Taşkın (18) was wounded by the opened fire in Yasef quarter,

and bled to death on the grounds that the ambulance couldn’t take him to hospital.

*On September 10, 2015 Devran Budak (9) was wounded due to the opened fire.

*On September 10, 2015 Bünyamin İrci (14) was shot to death by the opened fire from an

armoured vehicle in Nur quarter.

*On September 11, 2015 5 police officers were wounded due to an explosion while an

armoured vehicle was heading towards to Nur quarter.

*On September 11, 2015 Şahin Açık (74) lost his life on the grounds that he started having

health problems in his house in Nur quarter but wasn’t able to be taken to a hospital.

*On September 11, 2015 Selman Ağar (10) lost his life due to the opened fire in Cudi

quarter.

*On September 11, 2015 4 citizens in Nur quarter, whose names couldn’t be learnt, were

wounded by the fire of snipers.

*On September 11, 2015 Mehmet Dökmen (71) lost his life on the grounds of tension caused

by clashes in Yafes quarter.

*On September 11, 2015 Mehmet Erdoğan (75) was shot in his head by snipers in Cudi

quarter while he was on his way back from buying breads from the bakery.

*On September 12, 2015 during the observation of Committee members an explosion took

place in Nur quarter and a child named Yusuf Şık has got severely wounded. His right arm

and both feet were wounded and one of his arms needed to be amputated in the hospital he

was taken.

*On October 7, 2015 Mülkiye Geçgel (48) lost her life in the hospital that she has been since

September 9, 2015, which is the date that she was shot by the opened fire of security forces

and got severely wounded in her abdomen in Cudi quarter.

INTERVIEWS WITH THE FAMILIES of the CITIZENS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES

Ahmet Edin - Husband of Maşallah Edin and father-in-law of Zeynep Taşkın

I’m a driver and I was in Iraq. I wasn’t able to anwer phone calls. I called my brother from

his house and asked to talk with my children. I talked to my wife and daughter-in-law on the

phone. I heard that after the phone call they went out to go back home. First my daughter-inlaw

Zeynep Taşkın left home with her 6 months old baby in her arms. The moment she left,

she was shot by the snipers. When she fell on the ground, my wife Maşallah rallies to her

help. They shot her too. Than my uncle comes. And he was shot through his foot. He could

pull the baby later in. They used one shot for each. They shot to those who were laying in

front of the house. The baby cried on her mother’s corpse for hours. No one could reach there

to save them.

Husband of Zeynep Taşkın

My mom and wife was murdered in front of our door. My 6 months old baby Berxwedan, my

uncle Ahmet Edin, wife of my uncle Ayşe Edin and my cousin Ekrem Dayan were wounded

and now are in the Şırnak State Hospital..

Witness/ Victim (6)

Israel wouldn’t do these things to Palestine, which this State did to us. No one would accept this kind of inhuman treatment. No one can bear that. There was no water for 8-9 days, no food, no electricty. They didn’t let bakeries work. No pharmacies. Patients came but we couldn’t find any medicine. No one does what they did. It wouldn’t fit into any conscience. I

wasn’t expecting this from the President. Israel wouldn’t do that. Netanyahu wouldn’t do that.

We were in captivity for 8 days. We were not even able to go to our balconies. They were

constantly attacking us by weapons. Riot police, tanks and special forces were here. They

were the ISIS of Erdoğan.

Witness/ Victim (7)

They treated us like animals in our own city. They slaughtered us. They murdered a newborn

baby. They opened fire against the deputies who were trying to carry the bodies of people who

lost their lives, tried to kill them too. We saw everything with our own eyes. They were hitting

houses with bombs by tanks right in front of our house. Everyone was inside houses. No one

could do anything. Only they massacred us. Everyone was silent. While we were living inside

death and hunger, the State authorities said that no one died and no one was without any

food. They said ‘We give their needs.’ But they only attacked us with weapons and murdered

us. Police officers were opening the big supermarkt and getting what they needed. Yet, didn’t

let people get their needs. They didn’t even let us buy milk for the babies. We couldn’t find

even one drop of milk for 8 days. When I went out to get milk they opened fire on me. I could

have died in that attack. By these acts they were actually saying ‘we will show you a lesson,

you will see our power.’ They were wearing a special uniform and had beards like ISIS

members. They all had black cloths on their necks or wore beanies like ISIS flag. There were

tanks, mine counter vehicles [kirpi] and cobra vehicles. They killed people by shooting from

those vehicles. They killed babies and elderly people.

”

I will explain about a kid who came 2 days ago. Kid was 6-7 years old. When he was brought

to the emergency room, he was screaming and trying to scratch his eye out. He was

constantly screaming around as “I will kill myself.”

This morning a kid came with his cousins around the same age. All were 10 years old. They

were also screaming like that. “We are gonna kill ourselves. We are gonna explode

ourselves!” It shows how the psychologies of these kids are affected. 7 years old, 10 years old

children screaming as “I will explode myself”… From now on there is nothing to do.”

ihttp://www.hawarnews.com/

iihttp://en.ihd.org.tr/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Cizre-Observation-Report.pdf

ihttp://www.emu.dk/sites/default/files/Reagan%2023.12.1981.pdf

ihttp://www.jinha.com.tr/en/ALL-NEWS/content/view/37878

iiJeg tror personligt at han blev myrdet, ikke at han blev fanget i en krydsild, selvom der ikke foreligger helt klare beviser.